8 KD per day was collected from Bangladeshi workers

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KUWAIT CITY, Jun 17: While the Public Prosecution decided yesterday to continue the detention of the Bangladeshi MP accused of human trafficking and money laundering in Kuwait.

The Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Maryam Al-Aqeel, issued a decision to suspend a high ranking officer in the Public Authority for Manpower for a period of 3 months in view of public interest at the request of the public prosecution related to ongoing investigations on human trafficking.

A Bangladeshi witnesses who left the country revealed that they received promises of full compensation, but they only received 150 Kuwaiti dinars each before leaving from Kuwait Airport on a flight that arrived in Dhaka yesterday morning reports Bangladeshi News media Daily Star.

Witness Abdel-Alim Abdel-Jabbar revealed that the accused human traffickers use to collect 8 dinars per day from the workers as royalty. He said “Before coming to Kuwait I was told that my job will require 8 hours work per day and salary was 140 dinars per month, but I discovered upon my arrival that the shift would be 16 hours a day and that the monthly salary would be 100 dinars, and I was allowed to do other outside jobs.
Two people, one of whom was named Aman and the other his name Mahboub, were coming to collect the royalty amt.

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